(The London Swissotel, by the way, is no more. The landlords exercised the small print of the lease to repossess it last year and will turn it into flats as part of a rebuilding of the old Arthur Andersen HQ behind.)

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For regular stays you are usually better off taking hotel points and either converting to Avios or using them for hotel stays, but for one-off stays you might as well just take the Avios directly and be done with it.

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